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  • 'Schist', of the lower and upper transition rock, compositing the silurian and devonian formations; from the lower silurian strata, which were once termed cambrian, to the upper strata of the old red sandstone or devonian formation, immediately in contact with the mountain limestone.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • Schist is a medium - to coarse-grained foliated rock.

    Metamorphic rock 2007

  • Going from East to West, we went from a lower grade metamorphic rock a to a much higher grade, from a Phyllite to a Schist to Quartzite.

    worlds in a grain of sand Andrew 2004

  • Schist, I was hoping that he had been interred,, the World needs to be freed of these parasites.

    Think Progress » Ashcroft enshrined. 2006

  • Going from East to West, we went from a lower grade metamorphic rock a to a much higher grade, from a Phyllite to a Schist to Quartzite.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Andrew 2004

  • She imagined herself cartwheeling slowly and gracefully down through the crystalline air from the Kaibab Limestone, on which she was presumably standing, toward the Vishnu Schist, which she could not actually see.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • She imagined herself cartwheeling slowly and gracefully down through the crystalline air from the Kaibab Limestone, on which she was presumably standing, toward the Vishnu Schist, which she could not actually see.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Schist is a metamorphic rock, meaning that it was reformed by heat and pressure in the depths of the earth more than a billion years ago.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • Schist is a metamorphic rock, meaning that it was reformed by heat and pressure in the depths of the earth more than a billion years ago.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • From the guardroom, Schist announced, "I got him, sir."

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

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